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the remainder not with the
gang are to be unceremoniously
dropped from the rolls of the
department. In brief so
confident were the faithful
that the promises made them by
the self elected Chief were about to be
fulfilled that they openly boasted
of the capture of the department.
They were simply awaiting the
meeting of the board when the
buttons were to be stripped from
eight tenths of the members of this
department. Indeed so confident
were they that one of the last appointees
in the department scarcely six
months a fireman was parading
the waterfront positively [announcing?]
that he was after the scalp of Chief
Kellogg and Assistant Chief Marlow.

But in the meantime from
cause or causes to me unknown
a change in the [behavior?] on both
sides took place been
some sort of hitch in the
programme the firemen in
the department become more
encouraged and the ex firemen
and the half dozen faithful correspondingly